Including the surnames Tapley, Drake, Page, Harrell, Odom, Claxton, Bush, and Schwalls from the U.S. Southeast; and Ranney, Hubbard, Hesser, Carter, Schoonover, and Ozmun/Ozman/Osman from the U.S. Northeast and Midwest

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Friday, November 16, 2012

Friday Funny: How to Confuse your Descendants

Rules for our ancestors

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How to confuse your descendants

(1)
Thou shalt name your male children: James, John, Joseph, Josiah, Abel,
Richard, Thomas, William. (2) Thou shalt name your
female children: Elizabeth, Mary, Martha, Maria, Sarah, Ida,
Virginia, May.(3) Thou shalt leave NO
trace of your female children.(4) Thou
shalt, after naming your children from the above lists, call them by
strange nicknames such as: Ike, Eli, Polly, Dolly, Sukey.---making
them difficult to trace.(5) Thou shalt NOT use any
middle names on any legal documents or census reports, and only
where necessary, you may use only initials on legal documents.(6)Thou shalt learn to
sign all documents illegibly so that your surname can be spelled, or
misspelled, in various ways: Hicks, Hicks, Hix, Hixe, Hucks, Kicks.(7) Thou
shalt, after no
more then 3 generations, make sure that all family records are lost,
misplaced, burned in a court house fire, or buried so that NO future
trace of them can be found.(8) Thou shalt propagate
misleading legends, rumors, & vague innuendo regarding your
place origination.(A)
you may have come from : England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales....or Iran.(B) you may have
American Indian ancestry of the______tribe......(C)
You may have descended from one of three brothers that came over
from______(9) Thou shalt leave NO
cemetery records, or headstones with legible names.(10) Thou shalt leave NO
family Bible with records of birth, marriages, or deaths.(11) Thou shalt ALWAYS
flip thy name around. If born James Albert, thou must make all the
rest of thy records in the names of Albert, AJ, JA, AL, Bert, Bart, or
Alfred.(12) Thou must also flip
thy parent's names when making reference to them, although
"Unknown" or a blank line is an acceptable alternative.(13) Thou shalt name at
least 5 generations of males, and dozens of their cousins with identical
names in order to totally confuse researchers.